He rivalled Greene, but did not imitate him, being himself a direct legatee of Lyly.
I even went so far as to doubt whether such a proviso could stand in law; and I also put a practical query: what was to hinder the legatee from selling the property and diverting the funds, and then marrying whom she liked?
The legatee laid down the paper, and leaned her head softly on her fair hand, and her eyes explored vacancy.
The fair legatee read this extraordinary testament more than once.
In 1837, after having appointed as her residuary legatee Calyste du Guenic, whom she adored, but to whom she refused to give herself over, Felicite des Touches retired to a convent in Nantes of the order of Saint-Francois.
Cesarine, the sole legatee of her lover, received an income of only six hundred livres.
Cesarine was, as a result, the sole legatee of her lover.
It survives in England to this day in the habit of ascribing grotesque and striking landmarks or puzzling antiquities to the Devil, who became the residuary legatee of obsolete pagan superstitions in Christian countries.
I have already in my former testament left Lady Davy my residuarylegatee but I beg her in considering the disposition of my property to regard L6000 as belonging to my brother Dr.
I leave her my sole residuary legatee and sole Executrix.
It was held at one time that in default of a residuary legatee the residue fell to the executor himself, but now nothing less than the expressed intention of the testator can give it to him.
And there was only one danger in the future: the intervention of myself, Don Luis Perenna, whose conduct Vernocq was bound to foresee, as I was the residuary legatee by the terms of Cosmo Mornington's will.
Subsequent to the reading of the will, a cheque for one million francs shall be handed to my friend and legatee Don Luis Perenna, after a simple examination of his papers and a simple verification of his identity.
The bequest, however, was made conditional on the legatee taking the testator's body from The Tree and "planting it white.
The subtraction of a legacy is the withholding or detailing of it from the legatee by the executor.
Civil Law) Defn: The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him.
You and I know there ain't a thing that can be said for him except that he's the residuary legatee of all the machine politics that's been played in this State for the last twenty-five years.
The natural legatee of the old regime in his party was in line, of course.
He was not a mere legatee forced on them by a boss--he was speaking for himself, and the sincerity of the young man made itself felt.
Stepping in front of Hazen, he observed with force and unmistakable resolution: "Your devotion to the legatee Auchincloss cannot possibly be explained by any ordinary feeling of obligation.
Still, though a fugitive, he persists in believing that Ajaccio is French at heart, and urges the sending of a liberating force.
At a place hard by, he finds his mother, uncle, brothers and sisters.
It will be remembered that one of the Roman jurists said that a legatarius (legatee or devisee) was in a certain sense quasi heres.
But when a similar joinder of times was allowed between a legatee or devisee (legatarius) and his testator, the same explanation was offered.
If, however, the deceased expresses his intention that the legateeshould redeem the thing himself, the heir is under no obligation to do it for him.
If a slave's peculium be given as a legacy, the legatee undoubtedly profits by what is added to it, and is a loser by what is taken from it, during the testator's lifetime.
We have also prescribed the same procedure where the person charged with a trust is a legatee or already himself a transferee under a prior trust.
The lost legatee haunted him more tragically than ever.
The kindest of men, he found the picture of the poor legatee fighting for existence when, but for another's remissness, he would have had a goodly heritage, inexpressibly distressing.
Do you know that you are turning the universal legatee out of doors, and as yet his right has not been called in question?
At this moment, if the legatee withdraws everything that he declares to be his, we shall raise no objections, but the room itself will be sealed.
But, in my experience, the universal legatee very seldom follows the testator to the tomb.
Everything will be his, no doubt; but the legatee cannot take possession without an authorization--an order from the Tribunal.
Almost intact, I say, for the co-operation of the legatee and several other persons is absolutely indispensable, and some obligations will be incurred.
Harold, his son, succeeded him in his titles and estates; but as the latter are said to have consisted chiefly of the Goodwin Sands, the legatee could not hope to keep his head above water on such an inheritance.
There is no doubt that Hardicanute, the only legitimate son of the late king, would have tried it on had it not been left by will to Harold, while his brother Sweyn was the legatee of Norway.
He had scarcely heard of Captain Carroll until his return from Mexico, and now he was a legatee in the will of a millionaire.
He had for many years been an intimate friend of Colonel Dumont, and was a legatee in his will to a liberal amount.
If a debtor is sued by the legateeof the creditor and makes the plea that the debt was canceled, the legatee shall take oath to the effect that he has no knowledge of the cancellation of the debt.
A will is null if the legatee dies before the testator; otherwise it is legitimate, and [the property] may be transmitted to the heirs of the legatee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legatee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
